Film

Red Sorghum

1988 · 1h 31m · Drama · Romance · History

IMDb

7.3

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Rujun

Uncle Luohan

Liu Ji

Jiu'er's Son

Qian Ming

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun

Yang Qianbin

Xu Guoqing

Yao Er-ga

Li Yusheng

Palanquin Porter

Dong Kun

Zhang Yimou

• Zhang YimouDirector
• Chen JianyuWriter
• Zhu WeiWriter
• Li KezhiWriter
• Mo YanNovel
• Wu TianmingProducer
• Gu ChangweiDirector of Photography
• Zhao JipingOriginal Music Composer
• Du YuanEditor

Hong gao liang/Red Sorghum/Sorgo Rojo

Release date

October 10, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

Chinese

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

U

Genres

Drama, Romance, History

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